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APPLICATION FILED MAR.27, 1913. @@gwfggo Patented Apr. 7, 1914n-martini) STATES @ENT ernten.

ISAAC CEN'INER, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

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1,092,429. Specification of Letters Patent. Patenten Apr. '7., tore..

\ Application tiled March 27, 19/13. Serial No. 757,197.

To all whom. it mf/j/ concern.' I lle it known that I, Isaac CnN'rNna,ofthe city of Toronto, in the Province ofOntario, Canada7 have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Caps, of which the following` isa slneitication.

This invention relates to improvements 1n cloth caps provided withstitlened peaks and my object is to devise a'cap of this kind which canbe drawn down firmly on the head without b.indinr disagreeably on theforehead and which -will readily adapt itself to several differentsizesof head so that fewer sizes of cap need be carried by a retailer to tithis customers.

I attain my objectby means of the con struction hereinafter describe-dand illustrat-ed in thc accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is ait'ore-and-aft Section of my improved cap. Fig. Q a plan view of theunder side of the same showing; a slight modification in which the frontofthe sweat band is cut ai'ay.

In the drawings like numerals of reference indicate corresponding` partsin the ditfercnt figures.

The cap 1 is in general of ordinary construction and is provided withthe sweatband Q and the peak 3. The peak is provided-with the sti llenerIl. In the ordinary cap the rearward arc-shaped edge of the stillicnermeets the lower edge o'l' the. front of the sweathand. In my cap acrescent-.shaped piece is removed from the rearward edge of thestille-ner which now followsthe heavy dotted line 5. (See Fig. 2.) The'top and peak are sewed together along this line leaving thecresceit-shaped piece (3 of soft cloth behind the line ol stitching,

crably secured at its lower edge, to the inner edge of this`crescent-shaped prece. This crescent-shaped piece Vbeing,i soft and moreor less yielding` makes the cap easy to wear and easily stretchable tofit dill'erent sized heads.

To give'the cap ay greater range of adjustability I find it preferableto secure a piece of elastic to the inner edge of the crescent-shapedpiece 6. This elastic piece 7 is preferably independent of the sweatband which latter is formed of bias cut Inaterial or is otherwise madestretchable preferahly at'ithe front alone. The stitches of the seambetween the sweat band, the elastic, and the cloth o,f"the inner edge ofthe peak pass through several thicknesses of material, which necessarilygives the same eonsiden' able elasticity, and this elasticity is readilyincreased by maintaining only a light tension on the thread while theseam is being sewn.

`What I claim as my invention is:

1. In a cap the combination of a cloth top: a cloth covered peakincluding a stitfener eut to leave an unstitfened stretchablecrescent-shaped portion ofclotli at. the rearward side of the pea k; anda strctchable sweat band secured to the inner edge, ot said crescentshaped portion, the top of the cap being secured to the, peak along theouter edge of said unstifl'ened portion.

2. In a cap the combination of a cloth top; a cloth covered peakincluding a stiffener cut t0 leave an unstitfened stretcln ablecrescent-shaped portion at the rearward side of the peak: and a piece ofelastic secured alongr the inner edge of said crescent shaped portion.

3. In a cap the combination of a cloth top: a cloth covered peakincluding` a stiti'ener cut to leave an nnstitfened stretchablecresce!it-shaped portion at the rearward side of the peak; a piece ofelastic secured aloner the inner edge of said crescent shaped portion;and a stretehablc swcatlmnd also Secured along the inner edge of saidcrescent-shaped portion.

Dated at Toronto this 18th day of llarch 1913.

.ISAAC CENINEIL Signed in the presence ot'- J. RDW. MArBnn, E. P. HALL.

